Yap Speech Cloud was a multimodal

speech recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also ...

system developed by American technology company Yap Inc. It offered a fully

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speech-to-text

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platform that was used by customers such as

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.Could Yap Be The Next Big Speech Recognition Player?
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in September 2011Amazon Has Acquired Yap, the Closest Thing to a Siri Clone It Can Find.
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,The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo.
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